Doug Ables:  

CLASS OF 1970
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Brady High SchoolClass of 1970
Brady, TX

Doug's Story

Spent 20 years in Radio as News Director to Station Manager in several Texas cities last in Houston and Nashville, Tn. Started chimney sweeping in Brady in 1980 and continue that here in Copperas Cove. To see our website enter Ables central Texas chimney sweep in a search engine and it should pop up first. I married Mary Fisher(not from Brady)in 1974. We have four children. The oldest girl married a preacher turned accountant and they have 3 boys and a girl and live in Killeen. My oldest son is a motorcycle cop in Temple, he has one son. He is married to a nurse at Scott and White. The next daughter lived in Temple but moved to Kansas last year. They are moving back though this year. She has two little girls. And my youngest boy(21) is in his second year at West Point. He was on the deans list and named a distinguished cadet his plebe (first) year. He is looking to double major there. He got his smarts from his mom!!! When I got out of high school I was scouted by the LA Dodgers and NY Yankees to play baseball but in training got hurt and they dropped their inter...Expand for more
est for some reason. Wanted to be a professional baseball announcer. Went to school found that to be a limited field at the time and then went into radio news. Never did make the jump to sports though I tried. A family came along and I kind of lost interest in being away all the time. I am a homebody and don't like to be away from my family. Now my family has all grown up and moved away and it is just me and my wife. Oh well we see some of the family real often. I am an elder in our local church and stay busy there. I work on my web page all the time and the church's too. Fun but not that fun. I bill myself as the most famous sweep in Texas as I have been on TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. I could talk for days about my experiences but have got to go. I had open heart surgery in 1977 after a series of strokes. Only ill effects are I am blind in my right eye. Because of the strokes we had no insurance so have spent a lifetime paying off the health debts...which we did!!! Love playing with my 7 grandkids and am Monga to some of them and Papa to the rest.
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